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SUMMARY:Archival Futures
DESCRIPTION:This event features speakers who have employed different method
 ologies beyond the scope of con­ventional and "official" archives to reth
 ink the ques­tion of the right to the city\, politics over urban land (in
 cluding urban commons)\, and water justice. Bha­vani Raman's use of GIS t
 echnology to map recent floods in Chennai connects it to a sense of nostal
 gia for a time predating the days of colonial hydrolog­ical engineering. 
 Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay's recent book\, Streets in Motion explores the Haw
 kers San­gram Committee archive in Calcutta as a veritable record keeping
  device to map the commoning ("en­croachment") practices by the city's it
 inerant pub­lic. Yahia Shawkat is the author of Egypt's Housing Crisis an
 d cofounder of 10 Tooba\, an organisation that specializes in data visuali
 zation and historical mapping. Together their works raise the question of 
 how archives may be viewed as a technology that activates imagination\, no
 stalgia\, rights-claims\, and belonging. How do we distinguish the histo­
 rians' craft from the work of historical anthropol­ogy? How/why do we wri
 te urban histories that may double up as works of activism and advocacy?
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This event features speakers who have employed different meth
 odologies beyond the scope of con&shy\;ventional and "official" archives t
 o rethink the ques&shy\;tion of the right to the city\, politics over urba
 n land (including urban commons)\, and water justice. Bha&shy\;vani Raman'
 s use of GIS technology to map recent floods in Chennai connects it to a s
 ense of nostalgia for a time predating the days of colonial hydrolog&shy\;
 ical engineering. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay's recent book\, Streets in Motio
 n explores the Hawkers San&shy\;gram Committee archive in Calcutta as a ve
 ritable record keeping device to map the commoning ("en&shy\;croachment") 
 practices by the city's itinerant pub&shy\;lic. Yahia Shawkat is the autho
 r of Egypt's Housing Crisis and cofounder of 10 Tooba\, an organisation th
 at specializes in data visualization and historical mapping. Together thei
 r works raise the question of how archives may be viewed as a technology t
 hat activates imagination\, nostalgia\, rights-claims\, and belonging. How
  do we distinguish the histo&shy\;rians' craft from the work of historical
  anthropol&shy\;ogy? How/why do we write urban histories that may double u
 p as works of activism and advocacy?</p>
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